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WALDO CANYON FIRE: Victims struggle to redefine holidays

Maddie Olson watches as heavy equipment begins to clear the lot for her family's new home in Peregrine. Her family lost their Mountain Shadows home in the Waldo Canyon fire and will spend Thanksgiving on the West Coast. Photo by MARK REIS/The Gazette file

Jonni McCoy and Kerry Ann George both record the ground breaking of the first house to be rebuilt on Courtney Dr., the home if Kerry Ann and her husband, Richard George. Rebuilding work is under way on the McCoy home, but they won't be able to host Thanksgiving dinner as they have in the past. Photo by JERILEE BENNETT/The Gazette file